While editing a wiki, use a few guidelines to model online safety:

  • Do no out personal information--such as your full name (first names only are best), home phone number or home address. Avoid giving out a family name, password, user name, email address, home address, school name, city, country or other information that could help someone locate or contact you in person.
  • Never share your user name or password.
  • Assume, your students are watching you use Wikispaces for this project: appropriate words and conduct that you would wish your students to see and practice.
  • Be considerate of other uses of this wikispace; avoid any unpleasant remarks or copying other's work.


Use these guidelines of "Netiquette" to refect the professionalism you aspire:

  • Give credit in your work with proper citations for work you use created by others.
  • Let's forgive other user's mistakes online; constructive feedback will take care of making needed corrections.
  • Treat others as you would like to be treated - with respect.
  • Share knowledge with others; when you learn something new, pass it along to someone else who can benefit.
  • Stay focused on the topic you're researching. Let's avoid toggling back and forth to personal sites while working.
  • Read what you've created befoe and after you post using good formatting, spelling and grammar.
  • Online entries are NOT private. Don't write things you wouldn't mind seeing in your personnel file, or in the local newspaper.
  • Please do not publicly criticize others, be offensive, or use bad language.

These "Rules of Netiquette" were adapted from the following publication: John, El Paso, TX Internet Driver's License: Internet Guide and Workbook,Classroom Connect: Lancaster, 1997.